Dr. Max Hastings
AFTER
Today, she comes at me from a different angle. “Do you recall the way in which Mrs. Dunaway brought up her father’s murder?”
“Her father wasn’t murdered.”
“Considering the circumstances, I’m sure the prosecution will bring it up…which means it’s for the jury to decide. ”
“That’s fine. But I’m not going to answer a question that suggests I was involved in any way. I haven’t been implicated in that crime.”
She jots a series of notes down on her legal pad. “I understand. Her father’s death. At what point did Laurel first bring it up?”
death“He was dying from the first moment I accessed him. In a sense, you and I are no different. We’re all racing against waning clocks.”
“But his actual death, Dr. Hastings? As it occurred.”
“She didn’t bring it up, per se. Like
